Design Indaba Archive

Minimal Exposure on careful, considered, slow fashion

Design News • 25 Jun 18

“I find it difficult to call ourselves a fashion brand because the term fashion to me implies fast and fleeting.” >
Iwo Borkowicz on creating a new model for social housing in Cuba

Design Frontiers • Duration: 00:10:11 • 25 Jun 18

The Polish architect presents a workable solution for both residents and tourists. >
Hear stories of the real Uganda told by its own writers

Design News • 24 Jun 18

Creative platform This Is Uganda shares inspiring stories to undermine the negative perceptions that it is a country only suffering from poverty and HIV/AIDS. >
The Living Chair celebrates the beauty of imperfection

Product Spotlight • 23 Jun 18

Carpenter reinterprets his father’s iconic rocking chair design with flawed salvaged wood. >
We speak to an emoji activist on why diverse emojis matter

Design Frontiers • 22 Jun 18

Jennifer 8 Lee says the Emojination wants to make the approval of emoji a more inclusive and representative process. >
Hossein Fatemi photographs the duality of life in Iran

Design News • 22 Jun 18

The award-winning photographer has spent over 15 years documenting the lives of young people in the country. >
Sethembile Msezane on why she uses her art as resistance

Design News • 22 Jun 18

South Africa’s history is wrought with erasure. Sethembile Msezane is reclaiming the narrative with her work. >
Ameera Conrad on the joy and 'realness' of telling the stories of unheard voices

Design News • 22 Jun 18

Meet the writer, director, and actress making unapologetically political theatre. >
Grigri Pixel is looking for African creatives to participate in a residency in Madrid

Design News • 21 Jun 18

The award-winning programme brings together African and European creatives to create urban space interventions. >
Artist turns Ghana's symbol of scarcity into political art

Design News • 21 Jun 18

Serge Attukwei Clottey uses Ghana’s ever-present yellow oil gallons to make a political statement about the environment, history and consumption. >
Nigerian artist Dennis Osadebe on isolation, the future and African art

Design News • 21 Jun 18

“For art in a whole continent to be limited to just one label – 'African Art' – is a problem.” >
Mexican students design a carpet for growing crops in refugee camps

Design Frontiers • 20 Jun 18

Rise, which was designed by three Mexican industrial design students, addresses one of the world's most pressing issues. >
The maker of Algiknit talks seaweed fashion and the next stage of biotech

Talks • Duration: 00:06:54 • 20 Jun 18

Aleksandra Gosiewski's work touches on sustainable ways to fix the disconnect within the fashion industry. >
Nadir Bouhmouch is filming the longest protest in Morocco’s history

Design News • 19 Jun 18

“The first victims of climate change, of the environmental injustice are poor people.” >
Inspired by the African Dung Beetle, this invention is cleaning up streets and providing value to its community

Design News • 19 Jun 18

Made in Africa, the Dung Beetle Project turns single use plastic items into usable fuel. >
5 African Internet start-ups redefining agriculture

Design Frontiers • 18 Jun 18

It's Sustainable Gastronomy Day, a day that reaffirms that all cultures and civilisations are contributors and crucial enablers of sustainable development. >
Studio Swine on making sustainable design desirable

Design News • 18 Jun 18

London-based duo is behind accessories made of human hair, furniture made from ocean waste, among other designs. >
The designer of the Street Debater on fostering human connection through design

Talks • Duration: 00:10:57 • 18 Jun 18

“I realised that Street Debating not only addresses the problem of begging but something much bigger. It’s addressing the problem of social segregation.” >
Heartworks: Storytelling through crafts and embroidery

Design Frontiers • Duration: 00:04:12 • 15 Jun 18

Helle Vibeke Jensen and Tina Ratzer’s Heartworks workshop inspires out-of-the-box thinking. >
This photo series examines the ways in which black women are forced to comply in society

Design News • 15 Jun 18

Emerging Creative 2018 participant Stephanie Kenyaa Mzee also talks about xenophobia and why her work centres black women. >
A sixth sense for visually impaired people with the Sunu wristband

Design News • 14 Jun 18

This device is designed to help blind people seamlessly navigate their surroundings with sonar. >
Uninvited Guests is an elderly man’s battle with smart technology

Design News • 14 Jun 18

Superflux’s short film Uninvited Guests looks at the frictions that can arise as technology evolves. >
Albus: The photo series challenging established standards of beauty

Design News • 13 Jun 18

On #AlbinismAwarenessDay, a look at Justin Dingwall's groundbreaking photo series exploring the aesthetics of albinism. >
Playful enterprise gives new life to old plastic

Design News • 13 Jun 18

ecoBirdy’s eco-friendly furniture is about play, function and sustainable design. >

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